I'm not necessarily defending *every* commenter here, but personally, I absolutely do consider myself dedicated to liberal, enlightenment values. I'd caution you against thinking that rational people can't come to differing conclusions, even given the same set of facts. But, as should be abundantly clear to anyone paying even a whit of attention, rarely is it the case that everyone is working from the same set of facts these days. Media consumption is extremely Balkanized, and most of us have been shunted into echo chambers of one sort or another. (Myself included, I'm sure, though I do make a good-faith attempt to counteract that effect.)

Others disagreeing with one's own adjudication of how best to adhere to certain values does not automatically mean those others don't sincerely hold those same values. There's a reason morality has been argued over since time immemorial. It's often not cut and dried. The self-satisfied feeling of being entirely sure one's interpretation of events is the *only* acceptable or rational interpretation is usually preceded by fundamental attribution errors and a failure of intellectual humility. That feeling is one we should all distrust.